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When bandits are surrounded by fools!
2026-02-12 21:26:37 / IDE
In 1976, economist Carlo Cipolla, in an entertaining 60-page essay, presented the 5 fundamental laws of a force that he perceived as the greatest existential threat to humanity: Stupidity.
Based on the benefits and losses that a person simultaneously provides for himself and others, he classifies people into four main categories: Intelligent, Thugs, Naive, and Fools. Initially, he shared this theory only with his friends, later it became internationally known and is now studied in many disciplines.
Law 1: Everyone always inevitably underestimates the number of fools in circulation.
No matter how many fools we suspect we are surrounded by, we always underestimate their total number. This happens because we mistakenly consider some people intelligent, based solely on some characteristics that we believe exclude stupidity such as work, education, wealth.
For example, Zeqineja and Sara may be mistakenly excluded from the category of fools because they are MPs, but they are in fact the most worthy representatives of this category in the Assembly. This brings us to the 2nd law:
Law 2: The probability that a person is stupid is independent of any other characteristic of that person.
Cipolla considered stupidity "as a human characteristic, like having blond hair or black eyes. Consequently, it cannot but be distributed approximately equally in all spheres of society, regardless of the level of education of people."
Law 3: A fool is one who causes loss to another person or a group of people, being used without achieving anything positive for himself.
The stupidity we are talking about is not a congenital defect, but in certain circumstances, people like in the case of Zeqine and Sara become stupid because they allow this to happen. Stupidity in this case is arrogance and self-deception, united in a single form, transforming a person into a mindless tool, capable of any evil and at the same time, incapable of seeing what is evil. Therefore, stupidity in this case is a sociological problem.
Seen in this context, stupidity is not a matter of IQ, but on the contrary, it is a lack of relational skills. While bandits do good to themselves but harm others, intelligent people do good to themselves and others, naive people do good to others and harm themselves, stupid people are those who harm others and often themselves.
Law 4: Non-stupid people always underestimate the damaging power of stupid individuals. In particular, non-stupid people constantly forget that at any time, place, and circumstance, communicating and/or associating with stupid people always turns out to be a costly mistake.
Law 5: A fool is more dangerous than a bandit. In fact, common sense tells us that intelligent people, no matter how hostile they are, are predictable. Stupid people, on the other hand, are not. This subtle difference makes stupid people much more frightening than any other category.
Reading Carlo Cipolla's 60 pages full of irony, you realize that there is no more dangerous combination for a society than when it is run by "bandits" who surround themselves with fools.
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